THE most famous victory in the history of the Kilmacud Crokes club?

Kilmacud Crokes, Garrycastle, Skyrne and Rhode have advanced to the semi-finals of the AIB Leinster Club Senior Football Championship following today's matches around the province.

A BALLOT of 32,000 primary teachers on the public service pay deal will go ahead despite efforts to delay it until their union leaders could clarify the possible implications for members’ terms and conditions.

AN Irish official in Brussels, David O’Sullivan, is being touted for the post of secretary general of the EU’s new foreign service.

THE country’s female-dominated primary teaching profession will have a woman as its most senior union official next year.

The reception accorded to Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe by the primary teachers attending the conference of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) yesterday at Letterkenny has been depicted as frosty. The teachers were protesting against the pensions levy, the loss of teaching posts and the abolition of special needs classes.

PRIMARY schools and their staff are paying a heavy price for the Government’s failure to get tough on developers and tax exiles, the head of the largest teachers’ union claimed last night.

A MOTHER has claimed she will keep her eight-year-old daughter out of school rather than let her return when her special needs class is axed next September.

Almost 70,000 people took part in a protest against the Budget's education cuts.

THE insistence of parents and teachers that the education budget cutbacks must be reversed was as strong in Cork at the weekend as it was when thousands protested outside the Dáil almost a month ago.

Around 7,000 people have attended the latest protest against Budget cut-backs in education.

The Irish National Teachers Organisation has accused the Government of trying to "cut flesh from a skeleton" by slashing spending on primary schools in the recent Budget.

LARGER class sizes and less subject choice is the prospect for school children after the Department of Education decided to increase pupil teacher ratios in a strongly-criticised reversal of Government promises.

THE Government has failed to provide any new primary school buildings on Dublin’s southside for two decades despite the economic boom, a public meeting on education funding has heard.

In the first of a two-part series, Niall Murray highlights the need for more transparency in how taxpayers’ money is being used to improve school conditions.

The country's largest teachers' union is calling for urgent action to tackle the shortage of school places.

PARENTS of Gaelscoil pupils have given their backing to the policy of teaching no English for up to two years, despite a directive from Education Minister Mary Hanafin that schools should end the practice from next year.

MULTI-SKILLED principals of large primary schools receive about €5,000 less than their second level counterparts, the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) annual congress heard yesterday.

A new €3m scanner is to be deployed at Irish ports in a bid to tackle drugs and arms smugglers, it emerged today.

FIVE members of an Oireachtas committee have travelled to China for a 10-day trip that includes visits to many of the country's tourist attraction.

PRIMARY school principals were described as being like jugglers trying to keep several irons in the fire at the same time, and not completing anything in a satisfactory manner.

A CLARE school has spent €80,000 on prefab classrooms because no progress is being made on a long-awaited new building.

CONOR GALVIN’S goal six minutes before the half-time break helped Kilmacud Crokes to a seven point win over Ballymun Kickhams (1-10 to 0-6) and progression to the last eight of the Dublin SFC at Parnell Park on Saturday evening.